Infant dies as home is shot up / 7-week-old boy killed in S.F. -- father is wounded

Nicole Molex and her sister Amanda Molex at the home where the baby was killed.
A seven-week-old baby being cradled in his uncle's arms waskilled when a gunman opened fire on the infant's father outside the family's home in San Francisco's Bayview District. The baby, Glenn Timmy Maurice Molex, was playing in a back room of the house when someone starting shooting at his father. The boy died later at San FranciscoGeneral Hospital. The father, Glenn Timmy Molex, 20, was outside the home at 1520 Ingalls St. when the first shots rang out. 9/29/03 in San Francisco.
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Nicole Molex and her sister Amanda Molex at the home where the baby was killed.
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Nicole Molex and her sister Amanda Molex at the home where the baby was killed.
A seven-week-old baby being cradled in his uncle's arms waskilled when a gunman opened fire on the infant's father outside the family's home in San Francisco's Bayview District. The baby, Glenn Timmy Maurice Molex, was playing in a back room of the house when someone starting shooting at his father. The boy died later at San FranciscoGeneral Hospital. The father, Glenn Timmy Molex, 20, was outside the home at 1520 Ingalls St. when the first shots rang out. 9/29/03 in San Francisco.
PENNI GLADSTONE / The Chronicle less

Nicole Molex and her sister Amanda Molex at the home where the baby was killed.
A seven-week-old baby being cradled in his uncle's arms waskilled when a gunman opened fire on the infant's father outside the ... more

Photo: PENNI GLADSTONE

Infant dies as home is shot up / 7-week-old boy killed in S.F. -- father is wounded

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A 7-week-old baby being cradled in his uncle's arms became one of San Francisco's youngest victims of gun violence when a shot intended for the infant's father pierced the family's home in the Bayview district, police said Monday.

The baby, Glenn Timmy Maurice Molex, was in a back room when someone starting shooting at his father outside the house at 1520 Ingalls St. just before midnight Sunday. The boy was hit once in the head and died at San Francisco General Hospital.

"This is everybody's worst fear, everybody's worst nightmare, when an innocent bystander gets hit in a shooting," said police homicide Lt. John Hennessey. "To have a 7-week-old child killed is especially tragic. There's no excuse for it."

Hennessey said it was the youngest gun victim he has seen in his 31 years on the force.

The gunman fired several pistol rounds from a white car, possibly a Chrysler, then sped away. Authorities would not say how many people were in the car.

The father, Glenn Timmy Molex, 20, was hit twice in the back but was not seriously wounded. He was treated and released from San Francisco General.

Authorities said at first that they knew who the gunman was, but Hennessey would not confirm whether police had a suspect or discuss a motive. Family members said that the father was a construction worker who had suffered a disability, and that he wasn't affiliated with any gang.

The baby lived with his father and several other family members in a well- kept, two-story home near Palou Avenue, a working-class block where the violence that plagues parts of the Bayview has not been a problem until now. Behind the gated entry, a pane of glass in the door was cracked and a bullet hole was clearly visible in the door just beneath.

Family members knew the slain boy as "Baby Glenn," "Baby G" or "Skinny- Skinny-Fat-Fat." He was the first child of Molex and Sharonda Bishop.

"Whoever did it, get them off the street," said a cousin, Amanda Molex. "This is disgusting."

"It didn't have anything to do with nothing," she added. "My son got shot for no reason."

Family members said Baby Glenn was a lively boy who loved it when people played with him.

"Everybody would try to put him to sleep," said another cousin, Nicole Molex. "He was just a good baby."

Several family members were in the house when the shooting began. They ran for cover in the kitchen, in bathrooms and even in closets.

"At first it was just like, one gunshot," Nicole Molex said. "Then a few seconds later, it was a bunch of rounds being let off. Me and my aunt, we ran into the kitchen and got on the floor."

The baby was in a room at the end of a corridor that runs perpendicular to the street. Police think the bullet that killed him traveled through the front door and ricocheted to the back of the house.

Antwan Molex, the boy's uncle, was holding the baby as at least six bullets were fired into the house, Amanda Molex said. He put the child on a couch when he saw his brother had been hit, apparently not realizing the baby was wounded as well.

Bishop, the child's mother, came running from a bedroom and picked up the boy. "Her hand was on the back of his head," Amanda Molex said. "When she took her hand away she saw blood. She started screaming, 'Call 911!' "

Shiela Molex said she was at work as a nurse at a local hospital when she was called to her home and learned about what happened. At the hospital where the baby was taken, she said the family gathered and prayed for the mortally wounded boy's spirit.